Chapter 5: The Assassination Invited
The barrier of the Start family's secret grid was once set up by a certain high-ranking magician, and it is said that people are hiding inside, and they cannot be discovered unless they are masters of the Holy Rank. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info Looking now, I don't know if it was the magician bragging back then, or the lack of maintenance for a long time, or the person in front of him really has the strength of the Holy Rank, but these are not important.
The other party has already called his name, so he can only go out and meet him. Just two suspected low-level assassins, the strength is almost incomprehensible, and this suspected leader will only be stronger. There's no point in resisting and running away or anything.
Caracalla ...... The walls shook slightly, and a secret door slowly opened. Baron Stadt tried to calm his breath as much as he could, then walked out slowly, stopping about five paces in front of the man in black, his sword in his hand.
The man in black also put away the book and blew out the candle: "I'm sorry to disturb you late at night." ”
Stat remained motionless and responded in silence.
"As you can see, we are Assassins. The man in black said eloquently, "Assassins usually hide in the crowd, and when they don't have a task, they will take on some ordinary jobs. This is very similar to the Assassin in this novel. ”
"About three years ago, a certain nobleman tried to dig up the Assassins lurking around him, so he bought a lot of books about the Assassins and sent them to the people around him. He found that most people had a mediocre interest in these kinds of books, and only one seemed to be very interested. This man was later confirmed to be an Assassin. ”
"This poor colleague was unfortunately exposed, and in the end he died a miserable death. The man in black sighed, "So then we Assassins had an unwritten rule. On the surface, he was not interested in any Assassin-related material. ”
Staatt wanted to say, "Is that why you watch piracy late at night?" but he held back. He just nodded, "Hmm." ”
"The book "The Assassins" is, in my opinion, a very good work. The man in black pulled back the topic, "Especially for us Assassins, he is more realistic and inspires me. Although it is clear that the author is not an Assassin and does not know much about our industry. But the plot deduction is still relatively reasonable. I wonder why this work is so popular?"
"This ......," Statt was silent for a moment, "for many reasons, the protagonist often wins by small means, but does not show his strength very much, which is not in keeping with the popular chivalry. And the protagonist actually has only one wife in the end, which is also the same as the kind of aristocracy...... It doesn't match. So a lot of aristocrats don't like it. ”
The man in black nodded: "I can see that there is a very specific description of the elves in the work, and the author is an elven clansman?"
"No, the author is a mixed Terran and elven race. "Baron Stadt corrected," Lou Pauler nationality. ”
"Kevin Indon's Reflection Hall?" the man in black asked further.
"Yes. Baron Stadt replied, secretly surprised. There is no author's name on the work, only a pen name K. And there are so many down-and-out bards that it's not easy to look up names, and the other party actually knows.
"It's always uncomfortable to bury a good work. The man in black sighed, "I have an idea, I don't know if the Baron agrees?"
"Speak. ”
"I would like to take this book with me and recommend it to my fellow Assassins. The man in black replied, "It just so happens that you are here today, and the price can be discussed." ”
"This ...... There's only this one in the library, and if you take it with you, we'll have no more. Stadt hesitated.
"Here are 20 gold coins. The man in black took out a money bag and checked it, and it was crisp and audible inside. However, at this time, the distance between the two sides was 5 steps, and Baron Stadt did not dare to go over to take it.
"Your armor is good," the man in black smiled, and simply walked over, "but if I want to do it, just one piece of armor won't protect you." I'm about as good as four palace guards at the same time, and no one here will be my match. And as a baron, it seems that this armor should not be worn on you either. ”
Start was silent for a moment, but still tried to discuss: "Either I will let the little octopus copy eight copies, and make an appointment to meet tomorrow and give you all together, and the money will be fine." (The baby octopus, a demon suspected to be a small octopus, can be trained to copy books.) Eight tentacles can hold a pen, copy eight copies, day and night, extremely fast, and basically error-free. Normally, an octopus can copy eight copies of a Bible in a week. Like the average bard's novel, eight copies can be copied in a day. )
"No, we have octopus. The man in black replied, "And as Assassins, we would never make an appointment with outsiders, which is taboo for us. I am also worried about the agreed time, what to do if the other party has an ambush and so on. ”
"Oh well. Starter had no choice but to agree.
"If the library really wants the original version, I can return it after I finish copying it. It's a big deal that I'll make another trip, but when I return it, it's not certain. The man in black replied, and it seemed that he was also a reasonable man.
"Good. "Can I ask a question, then? If there really are assassins, can they really be hired to kill people for money?"
"We Assassins have a very strict system, and individual Assassins are not allowed to carry out tasks on their own. The man in black replied, "To put it simply, there are some things that are useless to spend more money on. As soon as he finished speaking, the man had disappeared, and Start only felt that everything was calm again, except that the "Assassin Biography" had disappeared without a trace, and there was a money bag on the ground.
Thinking back to the conversation just now, Starter was still afraid, and there was always a feeling of seeking the skin of a tiger when talking to the assassin.
The next day, inside the Lou Pauler Assassins' Guild, a man in black hurried over, then knelt down on one knee in front of the stage, and reported to the Assassin President about the recent domestic and foreign information.
The Guild of Assassins of Lou Pauler was directly subordinate to the King, but was not entirely subordinate to the King, and the National Council had some influence over them. In Lou Pauler, the main job of the Assassins was to deal with shady matters. However, in recent years, Guotai Ming'an has made very few dispatches, basically focusing on collecting intelligence and receiving foreign commissions. In principle, we will not accept domestic commissions for the sake of stability, and no matter how much money you have, it is useless.
The Assassin Guild was not located in a gloomy environment as in most works, and due to its direct affiliation with the country, the Assassin Director granted the title of Count directly to him, and the Guild Headquarters was located in his home. Only a few people knew that the Count was actually the Assassin Leader, and even most of the low-level Assassins didn't know it.
"Chairman, the Lane Empire has successfully domesticated a new type of mount, and according to our investigations, it may be a hybrid of some kind of Earth Walking Dragon and other species, although its strength is not high, it seems that it can equip troops on a large scale. Expand its dragon knight establishment. The man in black reported carefully and handed over the investigation report.
"Okay!" the president flipped through and nodded.
"The Smittagram secretly sent more than 600 people to search in the jungle or ruins in an attempt to find an ancient artifact. ”
"The tribes of the Orcs are running for a new leader, and relations with the Terrans seem to have eased. There is information that they may send some powerful students to study in the Terran Academy. But the current intelligence is not accurate. ”
The chairman flipped through the information and casually asked, "Isn't there any valuable information in the country?"
"The country is still dominated by the development of commercial production, and more and more nobles have begun to contract some projects, and in general, ......"
"I don't need to know what I already know. The president interrupted calmly.
The man in black was silent for a moment, indeed, what he just said had already been verified by the statistics department, and there was no need for an assassin to come out at all. What the Assassins needed was the kind of dark, secret, unseen information. But where are these so easy to get, not at home than abroad. Things abroad are farther away, the fault tolerance rate is higher, you can add some subjective guesses, and the president will not go to the beast clan to verify whether he really sent students over. And domestic affairs are just around the corner, and if you get it wrong, your life will be lost.
"What is this?" the president flipped to the end, only to find that there was also a copy of the Assassin's Biography
"It's a novel that one of his subordinates stumbled upon on the way," replied the man in black, "and I think it's a good inspiration for us Assassins today." ”
The president was expressionless, and took the book in his hand and flipped through it.
The man in black boldly continued: "The main character in the book is an assassin, although the assassination techniques in it seem to us to be somewhat absurd and romantic. Apparently the author was not an assassin. However, the Assassin doctrine he expounded is very consistent. He believes that assassins and killers should be different. ”
"Killers take money to kill, and whoever has more money is loyal to whom. Assassins, on the other hand, should be born out of a sense of justice. In your own way, through your own techniques, to purify sin. I think it's something that a lot of our low-level assassins lack. The man in black replied, "If you can cultivate an assassin with conviction and a sense of justice, I think it is more worthy of ...... than cultivating a killing machine."
The president was still flipping through the book until he was suddenly attracted by a passage in the book.
I saw the Assassin President snatch the king's toilet bowl, take out a spoon and dig a spoonful into it, put it in his mouth, smacked it, and the corners of his mouth were yellow. The other people on the side immediately turned to their stomachs, and several palace maids even retched directly.
The king was astonished: 'What are you doing?'
The Assassin President smiled and replied, 'Your Majesty, if a person is sick, then his must be poisonous. And I ate His Majesty's feces without being poisoned, so it can be seen that His Majesty's illness will soon be cured!'
The king was dumbfounded: 'But I'm not sick?'
"That means the king's body is healthy and the is not poisonous!" replied the Assassin Leader.
King: '......'
'Don't you believe it?' I'll eat again, ahhhh......h
The Assassin President closed the book with a gloomy face and threw it on the ground, and the man in black on the ground felt the murderous aura of the Assassin Leader, and he didn't dare to say a word, and lowered his head even lower.
"Hmph!" the president's voice was cold, "I can't find any information in the country, so I can fill it up with a broken book." Huh!"
The man in black bowed his head and did not dare to reply.
"Even if it's okay today, for the sake of the fact that there are really no major events recently, you have made a lot of contributions before. The Assassin President stood up and walked out with his hands behind his back, "Find out this guy with the pseudonym K!"
"Yes......" The man in black did not dare to disobey, so he could only agree, and he did not dare to get up slowly until the Assassin President walked out of the door.